A country music pioneer who collaborated with Bruce Springsteen has died. Joe Ely died Monday at his home in New Mexico after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s disease and pneumonia, his ...

Get ready to witness the coolest party of 2025! The Root.com is returning for its 16th year, promising a fresh and fun evening; we’re ditching the usual formality for a party atmosphere. Our annual ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Nine in 10 Americans gather around a table to share food on Thanksgiving. At this polarizing moment, anything that promises to bring Americans ...

Alright, Bob Dylan‘s “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” might not be orthodox folk music, but it certainly falls into the genre category, for numerous reasons. Nevertheless, this single had its sights set on ...

A Native American woman was reportedly nearly turned over to federal immigration authorities after a wrongful ICE detainer was issued by an Iowa jail. Leticia Jacobo, a 24-year-old member of the Salt ...

The American Black Film Festival, known for launching the careers of filmmakers including Ryan Coogler, Issa Rae and Ava DuVernay, is bringing its first ever two-day pop-up event to Dallas this ...

When the NFL in September 2025 announced that Bad Bunny would headline the next Super Bowl halftime show, it took only hours for the political outrage machine to roar to life. The Puerto Rican ...

As he stood in Rees Park in Gary, Pastor Keion Henderson remembered watching Glenn Robinson get drafted to the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1994 National Basketball Association draft. After Robinson began ...

Mr. Marche is the author, most recently, of “The Next Civil War.” He wrote from Toronto, where he lives. You may not think of Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again” as an incendiary political anthem, or ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...